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Animal Abuse in NZ Would you buy meat and eggs from chickens struggling in cages? Would you abuse your own pets unnecessarily? Would you like to be in their position?

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Guess how many of these pets have homes

None

Thousands of pets a year are put into pounds, adoption centres and SPCA and lots of them are put down. Only a small percentage are put into loving and caring homes.

Why have owners been abusing their pets? The most common reason of owners abusing their pets is because they think the pets have done something wrong, or that they are hassling them. Another reason is that they are taking their own anger out on their pets. Also they might not be able to afford to keep them.

Animal Needs To own an animal you must have these things for them proper and sufficient food and water adequate shelter opportunity to display normal patterns of behaviour physical handling in a manner which minimises the likelihood of unreasonable or unnecessary pain or distress protection from, and rapid diagnosis of, any significant injury or disease being a need which, in each case, is appropriate to the species, environment and circumstances of the animal. (Source NZCAC (NZ Companion Animal Council).

3 Million hens a year are caged for life.

Results of Factory Farming Bone Weakening From lack of exercise and lack of calcium since it is extracted from their bones to make eggs. Foot Injuries From uncomfortable design of cages. Collapsing Collapse from bone weakness. Some hens collapse and die in their cages. Beak Burning The factory workers shorten their beaks so they don’t peck the other hens.

Cages 87% of our eggs are in cage systems. Did you know that 3 or 4 hens are squashed in a cage that is made out of wire mash which is about the size of an A4 paper they can’t even open their wings

What are battery hens being fed? The government has banned growth hormones in New Zealand, however some chickens are being fed antibiotics to increase productivity for eggs and to make them grow bigger as well as to help prevent diseases. Factories put orange colouring to the hens food to make their yolks orange when naturally in the state of the chickens it would be yellow.

Organic Eggs BBio Eggs Factory Farmed Eggs FFarmer- Brown HHomeBrand SSelect Free Range Eggs HHenergy FFrenze WWoodland SSelect PPalace BBio Eggs Egg Brands BUY ME!

 Sign the petition on against factory farmed eggs.  Go to a pound, an adoption centre or the SPCA if you are thinking of adopting.  Don’t buy factory farmed eggs. Also…

Its because of us these animals suffer

References production-select-committee-final.pdf production-select-committee-final.pdf

Thanks To… Auckland SPCA Paws For Justice Harrison Fisher All animals featured in presentation

By… Jenna Kumar and Meg Fisher

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